Blake Mycoskie Quotes
If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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At first, social media was just about networking. But now that I have to network, I make sure that every platform makes money for me. You can do something on Facebook.
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I studied business in the U.S. and later worked in Dubai.
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I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business.
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To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
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Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded – like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
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If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.
